Comment & Opinion

Waste of the Day: NY museum timesheets are forged
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 12, 2026
The New York State Museum receives annual grant funding from the U.S. Geological Survey’s STATEMAP program, part of the Department of the Interior, wh...
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Navigating the obscene, but not illegal, in modern politics
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By CHRISTOPHER NICHOLAS RealClearPennsylvania 
Aug 12, 2026
When calling on my more than four decades in the campaign trenches to help decipher it to the outside world, I’ve settled on this basic premise: neith...
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Empty pews, regulatory zoos and populist views
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By PATRICK A. McLAUGHLIN Tribune News Service 
Aug 11, 2026
A quarter-millennium into the American experiment, some of our skepticism of big government has given way to populism and astounding numbers of regula...
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No one who works full time should be on Medicaid
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By KATHRYN ANNE EDWARDS Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 11, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — There are a lot of jobs in the U.S. economy that pay miserably low wages. And there are a lot that offer a reasonable hourly rate but...
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The era of cover-ups
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Aug 10, 2026
There’s no mystery in why Dr. Anthony Fauci strove to silence discussion about the origins of COVID-19 — he was in full CYA mode because the agency he...
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Pa. ending mandatory life for felony murder creates a mess
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By OLIVER BATEMAN RealClearPennsylvania 
Aug 10, 2026
In late July, Pennsylvania missed a deadline to replace a sentencing law the state’s highest court struck down, and roughly 1,100 inmates may now ask ...
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Waste of the Day: SNAP for lottery winners
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 07, 2026
Maryland gave at least $319,000 in food stamps and other federally-funded benefits to prisoners, dead people, and a $2 million lottery winner. A July ...
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Another far-left candidate to haunt Dems?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Aug 07, 2026
BOSTON (TNS) — The narrower than expected victory by the far left Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, could backfire on the party...
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Americans need to improve on their financial literacy
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 07, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — I recently joined the board of my Manhattan co-op, and I love it. One of my duties is reviewing applications for apartments, which — ...
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Amid current battles, Democrats look ahead to 2028
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
Aug 06, 2026
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Democrats are at it again, fiddling with the presidential nominating calendar in hopes of achieving the impossible – making it ...
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Tax cuts, deregulation power growth
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 05, 2026
Economic freedom and economic growth remain intertwined. Set to speak in Las Vegas on Wednesday, it was hoped President Donald Trump would emphasize h...
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MAGA or the DSA? America deserves a better choice
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ABBY McCLOSKEY Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 05, 2026
DALLAS (TNS) — Most Americans don’t want a state-run economy. But increasingly, there’s not a political party that reflects this mainline view. On the...
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Clearing clutter a constant challenge
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Aug 05, 2026
Clutter to a house is like weeds in the garden. You can’t just do it once and it’s done. Maybe some can. Not with the need to weed, but I hear many in...
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Waste of the Day: Puppies with public funds
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 04, 2026
Susan Noel, the former clerk and treasurer of Washington, Oklahoma, allegedly used public funds to buy a puppy, sofa, vacuum cleaner, electric dog cli...
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